10 AM
Mountain Biking 39:55 [3] 12.82 km (3:07 / km) +30m 3:05 / km
Biking fast to the O-meet (sprint Swiss champs) from our wonderful hotel Arenenberg (with castle and museum of Napoleon lll). Near Konstanz and Kreuzlingen, I couldn't find the bike path anymore and there's such a chaos of traintracks merging in a triangular fashion. I alsways rode towards a border crossing and knew I should not cross. Eventually, I turned to a different map app and things started to make sense again and I found the meet site. (the rules were very strict which way to enter, wearing masks and which way to leave after the race so not to communicate with the other crowd. A strange feeling being outside of big school and sport buildings and not allowed to enter. But thankfully, we CAN run in O-meets and in September 4 Swiss Champs are scheduled one weekend after another.)
Made it to the start with 6 min to spare, whew! Was so flustered having lost my way.
Orienteering race 24:14 [5] 2.64 km (9:10 / km) +88m 7:51 / km
Sprint Champs: started out well, but my legs were full of lactic acid after the stress of not finding the competition center and being tight on time. But soon I relaxed and could run better. A little mistake on #5 but then everything went well. It was actually quite easy but as controls were close to each other, I had to check the codes conscientiously. Then came the last third and had more and more trouble: went to a control on a fountain which seemed nicely on my way but it wasn't correct. Saw mine over a fence in another park and had to detour to enter it. Then the same thing on a wall to a bike parking along a building and I had to go around to see it. And then the second last one I thought it was on the corner of a building but it was on the other side of the fence just an armlength away (but my arm was till not long enough), so had to find an entrance through the fence. All in all, I estimate that I might have lost at least 3:30 min or slightly more.
Was placed at the bottom third in our still very competitive class, but I was just happy to orienteer again and was enjoying it. Towards the end, I felt like I could run nicely again. My diesel engine does not warm up before having covered 2 km at least..............
Mountain Biking 59:30 [2] 13.72 km (4:20 / km) +80m 4:13 / km
Slowly biking back with Urs, tried to get to the lake and have a coffee and cake, but we didn't make it through the park. So we went on following the bike path and paying attention (seeing the places we both went wrong as he had to search for the CC went different routes than I did an hour before). Stopped in Gottlieben besides a chocolate factory where we had our latte macchiato and a cake. Then quickly home.
After yesterday's sunny and hot day, it was overcast today, luckily with no rain and still kind of warm in the upper 15-19 degrees (as opposed to yday's 25-26 degrees). But a good time we had.